Government May Be the Answer
To Battered Tech Sector's Prayers

PARIS -- Attention, tech doomsayers: The battered technology sector could find help out of its slump from an unlikely savior -- government.

Most recent surveys suggest that corporate spending on technology will grow only slightly, if at all, next year. But they generally don't take into account the billions of dollars governments are anteing up for the exact same hardware, software and services.